These casts are correct and safe. The pointers are guaranteed to
have proper alignment, and aliasing is not a problem with character
types.
Originally committed as revision 22446 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
static void scale_block_c(const uint8_t src[64]/*align 8*/, uint8_t *dst/*align 8*/, int linesize)
{
int i, j;
- uint16_t *dst1 = dst;
- uint16_t *dst2 = dst + linesize;
+ uint16_t *dst1 = (uint16_t *) dst;
+ uint16_t *dst2 = (uint16_t *)(dst + linesize);
for (j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {